Ilovewaffles
Distinguished Member
DittoBlimey
All the best to you and bravo ! on your attitude to it all.
DittoBlimey
All the best to you and bravo ! on your attitude to it all.
Addenbrookes have hand held devices so when obs are done the nurse scans the wristband and the enters the readings.Watching the nursing staff is quite an education on how poorly they are treated one of the trained nurses was telling me she can go a full shift without a break so no food and a time to relax. Then there is the phenomenal amount of paperwork in even the simplest of tasks like taking blood pressure, oxygen level and temperature with an all in one machine which you would think in the 21St century would be connected to the main system by WiFi but nope all needs to be entered by hand in the patients paper record and then fed into the computer system my health board uses Trackcare which one of the nurses was telling also takes time as not only are you inputting the three reading they are also required to answer all sorts of complimentary and unnecessary questions.
Poor management, really poor computer system which was buggy from day one some 12/13 years ago, it seems this hospital today is short 70 staff which means so much extra work for those that are here yet our Scottish government constantly tells us how much better the NHS is up here.
Wouldn't happen to know what these devices are called?Addenbrookes have hand held devices so when obs are done the nurse scans the wristband and the enters the readings.
Bedford is still using paper though, as are Hinchingbrooke.
I think it was either an older iPhone or iPod Touch, they had a rubberised protector around so difficult to be certain.Wouldn't happen to know what these devices are called?
I think thats most of way things are going now.Watching the nursing staff is quite an education on how poorly they are treated one of the trained nurses was telling me she can go a full shift without a break so no food and a time to relax. Then there is the phenomenal amount of paperwork in even the simplest of tasks like taking blood pressure, oxygen level and temperature with an all in one machine which you would think in the 21St century would be connected to the main system by WiFi but nope all needs to be entered by hand in the patients paper record and then fed into the computer system my health board uses Trackcare which one of the nurses was telling also takes time as not only are you inputting the three reading they are also required to answer all sorts of complimentary and unnecessary questions.
Poor management, really poor computer system which was buggy from day one some 12/13 years ago, it seems this hospital today is short 70 staff which means so much extra work for those that are here yet our Scottish government constantly tells us how much better the NHS is up here.
Didn't you used to work as a waitress in a cocktail bar?I think thats most of way things are going now.
Some people know what i do here (please dont say), and i often go a 12 hour shift without even a toilet break.
In fact the last time i had a meal break (apart from a quick working one 2 weeks ago) was March.
My wife is a nurse (over 33 years in) and she also works for 111 part time and believes that this (111) is a cause for a lot of the pressure put on the NHS. Its something designed to relieve the pressures, but had the opposite effect. If anyone wants to know why i will explain.
Only on a weekend.Didn't you used to work as a waitress in a cocktail bar?
I'm interested please.
Glad to see you're making yourself useful on the ward!It seems I have become the IT consultant in the ward, a ward full of us oldies, I am connecting phones and tablets to the free WiFi though why it should need name and email address to do so is odd.
It looks like the owner will be keeping her now that she has moved into her housing association address. But that might be a good thing given the unpleasant route my cancer has taken and a kitten may have been more of a challenge than I could comfortably handle.Glad to see you're making yourself useful on the ward!
Have you decided what you're going to call the new kitten yet or does he/she already have a nam
You’re so naughty, but I like you ( as per Dick Emery- remember him?)A really attractive staff nurse called Emma has just said me "I will not give you one tonight I will leave it until the morning" OK it was in relation to a bottle of Fortisip but that said I really had to bite my tongue and not give an inappropriate response.
Certainly do.You’re so naughty, but I like you ( as per Dick Emery- remember him?)
I realised the correct quote was” oh, you are awful- but I like you “ However I see you as naughty !Certainly do.
Ha ha but you are bloody right, the buzzer I probably couldn't fix but the door closer and handle not a problem.I bet you're sitting there thinking "I wish I'd brought a screwdriver with me..."